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The Life of Muhammad
4. 1. Shihab alleged that 'Urwa b. al-Zubayr said that al-Zubayr met
the apostle with a caravan of Muslims who were returmng to Mecca from
a trading journey to Syria. They bartered some goods With the apostle
and al-Zubayr gave him and Abu Bakr some white garments.
So Bukh. iii. 40. Different names in 1.S. III. i. 153· 19·
5. Nafi' from 'Abdullah b. 'Umar: Some of the apostle's companions
said to him, fAre you speaking to dead men?' He answered, 'You cannot
hear what I say better than they.'
So Bukh. iii. 70. 17, 18, and cf. 1.1., pp. 453 f., where the words of
'A'isha are quoted to refute the statement that the dead hear: they know
but they do not hear.
6. 1. Shihab from Anas b. Malik: Some An~ar asked the apostle's
penrussion to remit to their sister's son'Abbas his ransom, and he replied,
'No, by Allah, you shall not let him off a single farth~~~' .
So Bukh. iii. 69. I, 2 and cf. T. 1341, 1. Qut. Ma aTif, 77· Sachau m
finding strange the claim .to relationship between 'Abbas and the An~ar
seems to have forgotten that the grandmother of 'Abbas was Salma d.
'Amr al-Khazraji. Cf. Bukh. ii. 388. 18 f. for the same claim.
7. 1. Shihab from 'Abdu'I-RaJ:>man b. Ka'b b. Malik al,Sulami and other
traditionists: 'Amir b. Malik b. Ja'far, who was called 'the player with the
spears', came to the apostle when he was a pol!theist and the apostle
explained Islam to him and he refused to accept It. He gave the apostle
a present, but he refused it saying that he would not accept a present from
a polytheist. 'Amir said: '0 apostle, send with me those of your messengers
you wish and I will be surety for them.' So the apostle sent a number
among whom were al-Mundhir b. 'Amr al-Saidi: of whom it wa~ said 'he
hastened to his death',' as a spy among the NaJd folk. When Amlr b.
Tufayl heard about them he tried to call out B. :Amir against them, but
they refused to obey him in violating the promise of sec.unty gl;en by
'Amir b. Malik. Then he appealed to B. Sulaym and they Jomed him and
killed them in Bi'r Mauna except 'Amr b. Umayya al-:Oamri whom
'Amir b. al-Tufayl dptured and afterwards released..Wh~n he came to the
apostle the latter said to him, 'Are you the sole. surv~vor?
This is a much briefer. account than that given m 1.H. 648 f. Cf. T·
1443 f.; Waq. (Well) 337 f.
8. Isma'il b. Ibrahim b. 'Uqba from Salim b. 'Abdullah from 'Abdullah
b. 'Umar: Some men contested the leadership of Usama, and the apostle
rose and said: 'If you contest the leadership of Uslima you used to contest
the leadership of his father before him. By Allah he was worthy to be
leader. He was one of the dearest of all men to me, and this man (his son)
I As I.I. has al-Mu'niq liyamiit I think that Sachau's Q'niq litamut, following the MS.,
must be read a'naqa liyamiit. Cf. I. a14Athir's Nihiiya (quoted by Sachau).
Introduction
is one of the dearest of men to me after him; so treat him well when I am
no more, for he is one of the best of you.'
Cf. Bukh. ii. 440, iii. 133, 192, and 1.H. 999. 14; 1006. 20 f.
9. Salim b. 'Abdullah from 'Abdullah b. 'Umar: The apostle used not
to make an exception for Fatima.
Sachau explains this from Bukh. ii. 441 and iii. 145 where Muhammad
says that if Fatima were to steal he would cut her hand off.
10. 'Abdullah b. Faarra. Then Zayd b. Arqam (d. 68) wrote to me
when he heard of my great grief to say that he had heard the apostle say
'0 God forgive the An~ar and their sons and we implore Thy grace on
their grandsons'.
Similarly 1.H. 886. 12 and Waq. (W.) 380.
II. 'Abdullah b. al-Fa